All behavior has causes. No explanation of those causes justifies immoral behavior. If we think explanations justify bad behavior we punish the discovery of those causes. If we punish the discovery of the causes we do not improve our human condition or reduce immoral behavior.
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@michael_nielsen this relates to what we were chatting about months back RE "whatever removes the barriers to the information flowing through the mind [or society] about what happened, is likely to be good for behavior change"1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
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I find your framing striking because I find it elusive; I don't know why (I've come back to it several times). I think of it as: (1) what actions contributed to things not working; and (2) why did it _make a lot of sense_ to do those actions at the time?
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. @sentiest seems to be talking about morality (different context from what we were discussing, IIRC). But I very much like that notion of taking great care to avoid punishing discovery of causes. Thinking of so many instances (both positive and negative!)
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